Jason Polakow (born 10 November 1971 in Torquay, Victoria) is an Australian professional windsurfer from Victoria. [1] He founded the watersports company JP Australia and [2] was the first windsurfer to ride big wave of Nazare, in Portugal. [3] Polakow gained notoriety in 1991 when we won the Marui/O’Neill World Cup Grand Slam contest against Robby Naish becoming the first non-Hawaiian ever to win a World Cup Wave contest in Hawaii. [4] Polakow won the PWA World Tour wave world title in 1997 and 1998. [5] [6]